From: nokidding@ria.net.IF.YOU.SPAM.ME.YOU.SUCK.ROCKS   
      
   GEORGE CLOONEY missed out on playing a wino suffering a midlife crisis in   
   new indie film SIDEWAYS because director ALEXANDER PAYNE insisted he wasn't   
   the right man for the part.   
      
   Clooney was so desperate to work on the film, an adaptation of REX PICKETT's   
   bestselling novel about a group of wine drinkers, he met with ABOUT SCHMIDT   
   Payne in a bid to persuade the director to cast him.   
      
   Payne recalls, "I said, 'You're a wonderful actor, but I wouldn't believe   
   that one of the world's most handsome, most famous movie stars can play one   
   of the world's biggest loser actors."   
      
   The part Clooney wanted to play eventually went to American thespian THOMAS   
   HADEN CHURCH   
      
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